One more important part of musics material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media - radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the information revolution, a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music-cultures all over the globe.
1. Research onto the material culture of a nation is of great importance because_______.
A) it helps produce new cultural tools and technology
B) it can reflect the development of the nation
C) it helps understand the nation`s past and present
D) it can demonstrate the nation`s civilization
2. It can be learned from this passage that_________.
A) the existence of the symphony was attributed to the spread of Near Eastern and Chinese music
B) Near Eastern music had an influence on the development of the instruments in the symphony orchestra
C) The development of the symphony shows the mutual influenc3e of Eastern and Western music
D) The musical instruments in the symphony orchestra were developed on the basis of Near Eastern music
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